The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-13
Farm and Garden Notes.

W hAIC CIONSI, as d
for hogs, is highly esteemed in Iowa.
Keep your work horses from flies in
hot weather by blanketing them thinly
The best time to cut grass for hay is in
the afternoon when the heat has sub
sided
The feeding value of early cut clover
or mixed hay is greater than that of fod-
der corn.
Poultry do we'll running in the
orchards, and the latter are benefited
| likewise.
The right way with peaches is to plant
few trees every year. They will hit &C.
casionally.
Feed all fattening animals literally, for
every little backset counts largely on the
losing side.
The thicker hay mows are made and
the tighter they are tramped the less apt
will the hay be to mould.
A light busting with white lead after
the dew is on is said to afford protection
against striped bugs on vines.
The best experiment for bringing up
herd of grade cattle to superior excellence
is to employ only pure bred males.
An old farmer says: "You bless your
stock and increase your store when you
go into winter with a good supply of
roots"
The Ohio Experimental Station says
the larger corn grows the shallower
should BE the blowing, for the small roots
increase with great rapidity.
A farmer in Kentucky is cited who
keeps worms off cabbages by sprinkling
on them mixture of two gallons of wa
ter with one gallon of buttermilk.
A New York farmer says he failed to
get a crop of turnips until he used I'M
leached ashes to fertilize the ground
Ashes will raise crop on any kind of
land.
Plants growing too thickly together
cannot thrive. Some of them are as
weeds to the others. Thin them out if
too thick, and a larger yield Will be the
result.
Rancid butter may be made sweet by
washing it with fresh sweet milk, and
then with clear cold water. It should
then be used at once, or it will grow
rancid.
A flock of turkeys will range the fields
all summer, destroying millions of in
sects, and part of them living without
taxing the housekeeper for the means of
support.
The hoe and cultivator are the leading
implements for corn cultivation which
are not likely to be superseded. Keep
them running until the crop is ready to
be 'laid by"
1t may not be agreeable, at all times, to
have hens running at large, but it is their
nature, and with the exercise they get,
and the variety of food, the production
of eggs is usually much increased.
Hard water contains too much lime
stone, and causes bread mixed with it
soon to dry out. Use soft water to mix
the dough, and you will get a much
better article of bread and one that will
retain it's freshness.
Lands to be sOwn with wheat or grass
seed this fall should be plowed as early
as possible, worked even with cultivator
or good harrow, and thoroughly har-
rOwed again before sowing time. 1t is of
great importance to have a good seed
bed.
A contemporary says: ''The object of
blowing corn in a dry season is not so
much to kill the weeds as to form a
mulch of dry dirt that will condense the
moisture in the shape of dew, and that
will consume or save the moisture that
comes up from the hidden reservoirs be-
low"
Mr.. J. W. Clark, of HadIey, Mass,
considerable peach-grower, says he has
come to the conclusion that no certain
degree of cold can be named which is
sure death to peach buds, but that under
varying conditions they may live or die
within a considerable range of tempera-
ture.
: DR.. Race, of Pittstown, Hunterdon
County, n j., has found that when pear
trees bear an exceptionally large crop,
they are liable to an unhealthy appear
ance. The leaves turn yellow, small
reddish shoots start up from the large
branches near the trunk, and the wood
soon becomes of a dark, brownish color.
For the last six years he has used potash,
salt and bone in treating trees for yell
lows.
When haying and harvest are over,
take vacation. Hitch up the horses to
the spring wagon, load up the needed
conveniences and the family, and get
away to the shores of the sea or a lake,
or to some pleasant hill or mountain,
even if not over a mile from home, pro-
vided the spot is an attractive one and
the farm out of sight. Camp out for
week, if two cannot be afforded. Rest
and recreation are the objects sought; so
do not worry about how things are going
on at home